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With the long wait for the 2009 Formula 1 season to start came a fantastic qualifying session at Melbourne, the all new Brawn GP team locked out row one of the grid with Jenson Button heading the pair with P1.

Timo Glock then Nico Rosberg then Robert Kubica taking third spot which was finally stolen by wonder-kid Sebastien Vettel leaving the aforementioned in fourth (Kubica) fifth (Nico) and sixth(Glock) respectively.

With McLaren knowing they were off the pace before they arrived in Melbourne they were not expecting great things and are doing their best with damage limitation, perhaps the slight shock for some is that Hamilton was out-paced by revived Heikki Kovalainen.

With Lewis Hamilton not posting a time for Q2 due to a 'drive train problem' it was looking like a tough weekend ahead, now the weekend has been made that extra bit more difficult as the "drive train problem" has turned out to be a gearbox problem and McLaren have had to do a gearbox change on Hamilton's car.

This results in Hamilton being given a five place grid penalty which now leaves the current World Champion Brit in last place on the grid.

Also, just after qualifying the FIA checked the rear wing of the Toyota's of Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli.

The FIA deemed the rear wings to have "extreme flexibility" which goes against "Article 3.15 of the 2009 Formula One Technical Regulations", as a result of this, the qualifying time's of the two Toyota's have been cancelled.

This means that at the very back of the grid will be the Toyota's with Hamilton just ahead (or at least that is how I have perceived what I have read, and it could quite easily be that Hamilton starts at the back with the Toyota's just ahead).

This also means that now Massa will be P6 and Raikkonen will be P7.

[Source: FIA, Formula One Official News Web site, iTV, BBC, and other outlets]

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